Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

The 10,000-hours rule says that if you look at any kind of cognitively complex field, from playing chess to being a neurosurgeon, we see this incredibly consistent pattern that you cannot be good at that unless you practice for 10,000 hours, which is roughly ten years, if you think about four hours a day.

People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.

As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect.

There are some people, who I'll charitably call snobs, who are dismissive of any conversation that doesn't begin with the full level of complexity. That's just not how the world works.

Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They'd have nothing to blog about.

What track needs to figure out: how to engage us between the races. Instead, the entire off-the-track conversation is about doping. This is how you kill a sport.